ACCOUNT OF THE DEPUTATIONS OF THE ARABS TO THE APOSTLE OF ALLAH, MAY ALLAH BLESS HIM-The Deputation of Hilál Ibn Amir

He (Ibn Sad) said: The narration is connected with the narration of Ali Ibn Muhammad al-Qurashi; they said: A party of Banu Hilal waited on the Apostle of Allah, may Allah bless him. Among them was 'AbdAwf,
Ibn Asram Ibn ‘Amr Ibn Shu`aybah Ibn al-Huzam, a person of
Ruwaybah. He (Prophet) asked him his name. He informed him (Prophet). Then he said: You are ‘Abd Allah. He embraced Islam and
one of his descendants recited:
“He is my grandfather whom alone the Hawázin chose,
To depute to the Prophet, and he was `Abd ‘Awf.
“And among them was Qabisah Ibn a1-Mukhariq. He said: O
Apostle of Allah! I have been a guarantor of my tribe (to pay dues), so
help me. He said: You will have when sadaqat are collected.

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He (Ibn Sad) said: Hisham Ibn Muhammad informed us; he said: Ja'far Ibn Kilab al-Jafari informed us on the authority of the elders of Banu
`Amir; they said:
Ziyad Ibn ‘Abd Allah Ibn Malik Ibn Bujayr Ibn al-Huzam Ibn
Ruwaybah Ibn ‘Abd Allah Ibn Hilal Ibn ‘Amir waited in a deputation on
the Prophet, may Allah bless him. When he entered al-Madinah, he went
to the apartment of Maymunah Bint al-Harith, the wife of the Prophet,
who was his aunt as his mother was Ghurrah Bint al-Harith. He was a
young man. The Prophet, may Allah bless him, entered when he was with
her. He (Prophet) was displeased and returned. She said: O Apostle of
Allah! he is the son of my sister. Thereupon he entered, and then he came
out and went to the mosque, and with him was Ziyad. He offered al-Zuhr
(afternoon) prayers; then he brought Ziyad close to him and invoked
blessings for him. He put his hand over his head and brought it to the
edge of his nose. The Banu Hilal used to say: We never ceased
recognizing the blessings in the face of Ziyad. A poet recited about ‘Ali
Ibn Ziyad:
‘O son of him whose head the Prophet touched.
And invoked for him blessings in the mosque,
I mean Ziyad and I do not intend any one else,
May he be of Ghur, Tihamah or Najd,
This light did not cease to be in his skin.
Till he made his abode in the tomb’.

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